Between Power Rangers and Super Sentai
Now to see why Power Rangers was created for the U.S. instead of importing Super Sentai. Here's my theory that has to do something with country standards. Now let's move on.
There are differences between Japanese and American shows that eventually create the difference between Super Sentai and Power Rangers.
American parents complain a lot about deaths in their shows even if they're not violent. In fact, it can go as far as to even make ridiculous claims in a major attack, nobody got killed and the city suffered "minimal" damage. For example, if Tommy died in MMPR, expect a lot of complaints especially during the death of Optimus Prime in Transformers. Sentai was known to present deaths of heroes too.
Of course gun scenes aren't allowed that much or in fact in Power Rangers, they wouldn't dare put a scene like that above. In the dubbed versions of Sentai, some questionable scenes are removed but not the badass moment- just the blood from the bullets. Strangely enough, a lot more people commit brutal suicides and school shootings in America than in Japan. Violence is somewhat under less supervision in Japan but then, parents are there in the house. In America, most parents are like Timmy Turner's parents in Fairly Oddparents.
Action is usually more exaggerated accompanied by severe injuries in Super Sentai but not as great as it is in Chinese cinema where characters survive after super duper fantastic action but rather realistic effects but unrealistic situation fights. In Power Rangers, the action in the Saban era was like that to a lesser extent. In Disney, never mind.
A show's number of episodes depends on how popular a show is in the America. I used a picture of an older Lin to stress a point that they don't care even if it takes that long. If it's not popular, most shows end up having no finale at all. I can remember why I stopped watching most American shows and not even bothering to recall my whole childhood. That's what caused MMPR to have three seasons, carry on a lot of recycling of cast members until people got bored of the whole Zordon Arc. In Japan, there's a fixed finale most of the time and shows usually only last one season unless it's "epic". Japan hardly makes that mistake. Fortunately Saban and Judd Lynn's PR era started to follow Japanese standards when it comes to this area.
Acts like smoking and alcohol are part of the Japanese children's show- however not without consequences like in one episode of Jetman, Kaori mentions to Guy that it's bad for his health so he had to stop smoking- that is until his supposed "death" in the last episode. Fiveman also had a hilarious episode that showed the consequences of getting drunk, a common problem among Americans.
Of course you should expect there's more wacky humor in Super Sentai than in Power Rangers. Most American shows laugh that little jokes. Japan usually has exaggerated humor accompanied by action. Take for example the light-hearted Go-onger.
And yep Japanese villains can get scarier and scarier. In America, when Lord Zedd was introduced, parents complained so he was made a dumb villain. The Gorma Emperor of Dairanger was insanely scary with his tantrums.
And the timeline... well some fans argue whether or not each show is an indirect sequel to one another as Kakuranger vs. Ohranger has so many contradictions to avoid it from fitting in between both series. Also, not to mention some mecha were destroyed in some series.
And not to mention Sentai sexiness. We don't have that much in Power Rangers. For example, Saban had to change Zonette's costume for the actress to play as Divatox due to U.S. ratings or that of Shelinda's wasn't ported into Lost Galaxy.
There are differences between Japanese and American shows that eventually create the difference between Super Sentai and Power Rangers.
American parents complain a lot about deaths in their shows even if they're not violent. In fact, it can go as far as to even make ridiculous claims in a major attack, nobody got killed and the city suffered "minimal" damage. For example, if Tommy died in MMPR, expect a lot of complaints especially during the death of Optimus Prime in Transformers. Sentai was known to present deaths of heroes too.
Of course gun scenes aren't allowed that much or in fact in Power Rangers, they wouldn't dare put a scene like that above. In the dubbed versions of Sentai, some questionable scenes are removed but not the badass moment- just the blood from the bullets. Strangely enough, a lot more people commit brutal suicides and school shootings in America than in Japan. Violence is somewhat under less supervision in Japan but then, parents are there in the house. In America, most parents are like Timmy Turner's parents in Fairly Oddparents.
Action is usually more exaggerated accompanied by severe injuries in Super Sentai but not as great as it is in Chinese cinema where characters survive after super duper fantastic action but rather realistic effects but unrealistic situation fights. In Power Rangers, the action in the Saban era was like that to a lesser extent. In Disney, never mind.
A show's number of episodes depends on how popular a show is in the America. I used a picture of an older Lin to stress a point that they don't care even if it takes that long. If it's not popular, most shows end up having no finale at all. I can remember why I stopped watching most American shows and not even bothering to recall my whole childhood. That's what caused MMPR to have three seasons, carry on a lot of recycling of cast members until people got bored of the whole Zordon Arc. In Japan, there's a fixed finale most of the time and shows usually only last one season unless it's "epic". Japan hardly makes that mistake. Fortunately Saban and Judd Lynn's PR era started to follow Japanese standards when it comes to this area.
Acts like smoking and alcohol are part of the Japanese children's show- however not without consequences like in one episode of Jetman, Kaori mentions to Guy that it's bad for his health so he had to stop smoking- that is until his supposed "death" in the last episode. Fiveman also had a hilarious episode that showed the consequences of getting drunk, a common problem among Americans.
Of course you should expect there's more wacky humor in Super Sentai than in Power Rangers. Most American shows laugh that little jokes. Japan usually has exaggerated humor accompanied by action. Take for example the light-hearted Go-onger.
And yep Japanese villains can get scarier and scarier. In America, when Lord Zedd was introduced, parents complained so he was made a dumb villain. The Gorma Emperor of Dairanger was insanely scary with his tantrums.
And the timeline... well some fans argue whether or not each show is an indirect sequel to one another as Kakuranger vs. Ohranger has so many contradictions to avoid it from fitting in between both series. Also, not to mention some mecha were destroyed in some series.
And not to mention Sentai sexiness. We don't have that much in Power Rangers. For example, Saban had to change Zonette's costume for the actress to play as Divatox due to U.S. ratings or that of Shelinda's wasn't ported into Lost Galaxy.
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